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Poland To Campaign For GMO-Free European Union

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Poland will propose to the European Union that it introduces a complete ban on cultivating, feeding or trading any genetically modified agricultural products, Farm Minister Marek Sawicki said Sept. 23. The biggest ex-communist EU member does not have a proper overall GMO legal regulatory framework after attempts failed to reach a political agreement in the
Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Sep. 15, 2011

One small step towards marketing freedom Farmers will finally be allowed the marketing freedom they have long been denied. The monopoly powers of the CWB will soon be revoked and it will either be an optional marketing entity available to farmers or it will cease to exist. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has held fast to
Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Viterra Outlines Structure Along Three Business Lines

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TORONTO/REUTERS Viterra Inc. outlined Aug. 8 a global organizational structure around three business lines – grain, processing and other agricultural products – and named senior executives to head each unit. The Canadian agribusiness company, which has expanded recently in Australia and New Zealand, said the moves would support growth and improve internal efficiencies. Fran Malecha,
Opinion

Are Higher Commodity Prices The “New Normal?”

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Higher commodity prices might be the rule rather than the exception in the coming years, a Purdue University agricultural economist says. While prices regularly rise and fall, they have trended upward in a way that suggests they’ve reached a plateau, said Mike Boehlje. He attributed much of the price movement to bullish export markets, weather-shortened
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Agreement Reached To Increase Manitoba Farm Exports To China

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An agreement between CentrePort Canada, the country’s two major railways and a number of Chinese companies should lead to increased exports of agricultural products from Manitoba to inland China, according to a release from Manitoba’s CentrePort. The agreement between CentrePort, CN Worldwide, Canadian Pacific Logistics S o l u t i o n s ,
Opinion

Will The New Recipe Work?

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On Feb. 4, Prime Minister Harper and U.S. President Obama created a U.S.-Canada Regulatory Co-operation Council (RCC) with a mandate to reduce regulatory red tape at the border. The leaders pledged to remove barriers to the trade of goods between the two countries, with specific reference to food. Food and agricultural products were highlighted because
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Mercosur Trade Deal To Cost EU Farmers

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European farmers could lose more than three billion euros in annual revenue by 2020 under any free trade deal between the European Union and Latin America’s Mercosur region, a study for the EU’s executive showed. The deepest losses would be felt by beef producers in Ireland, Britain and France, hit by a predicted 200,000-tonne annual
Livestock

U.S. Grain Exports Face Hurdle If Floods Worsen

High water on the Mississippi River has slashed grain shipments by about 40 per cent and could pose a threat to exports from the U.S. Gulf, the main exit for agricultural products to world markets, industry sources said April 27. Grain exporters have for the moment been able to continue loading vessels at Gulf terminals,
Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

Do North American Farmers Really Feed The World?

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We recently ran across a belt buckle from the 1980s that read, “The American Farmer feeds the world.” For many producers, that statement underlies much of what they do from their on-farm decision-making to the policies they support. As the 1996 Farm Bill was being debated, we remember talking to farmers who wanted to “get
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Agriculture Gets Low Budget Profile

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With commodity prices soaring and the federal government negotiating with the provinces on a new version of Growing Forward, no one expects agriculture to rate much more than mention in passing in the March 22 budget. A recent Agriculture Canada forecast predicted generally rosy conditions for most sectors of Canadian agriculture going forward as food

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